There’s a song on Led Zeppelin III called “Gallows Pole” which is an update of a 17th century folk song, cataloged as Child Ballad 95. Like all Child Ballads, the gender and station of the narrator switch between versions, but the basic story is the same – the hangman demands the girl, not gold and she wakes the next morning to see her father/brother/husband swinging from the Gallows pole. Leadbelly and Bob Dylan also did versions